hundred miles of interurban railways, is an important factor in the development of Detroit's mercantile interests, retail and wholesale. Detroit is a beautiful city. Its streets are broad, well-paved and provided with an abundance of shade trees. In the newer residence sections the houses are in keeping with the present improvement in the style of architecture and many of them are an evidence of architectural art. The City Hall on the Campus Martius, the main plaza of the city, is noteworthy. It was constructed of sandstone, in the Italian style of architecture, at a cost of about $600,000, and is 600 feet long and Isle, covering 707 acres, and the smallest, that in front of the Detroit Opera House, covering a little less than a fifth of an acre, about the size of a building lot. The Grand Boulevard completely encircles the city except on the river side, occupies 221 acres, and is 11.6 miles long. Altogether, according to the last annual report, the sum of $4,507,764 has been expended on the Detroit system of parks and boulevards. Detroit has the distinction of getting the largest credit on insurance premiums of any city in the United States, on account of its finely equipped fire department. All fire risks are now rated on the schedule basis and Detroit gets a credit of seventy-one per cent from the schedule rate. Last year the Detroit fire department responded to 1,164 calls, of which 1,067 were actual fires and ninetyseven false alarms. The total loss was represented by $441,105. The running expenses of the department for the year approximated $573,000. Experts have pronounced the water supply of the city almost chemically pure and there is an unlimited supply of it. The water-works is owned by the municipality, represents a cost of $7,076,946, and is entirely self-supporting, while the water rates are very low. In fact the general rate of taxation in the City of the Straits-about $15 per thousand-is low when compared to the tax rate of other communities, and the net debt of the city was only $4,365,889 on June 3, 1905. The city does its own street lighting. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905, 2,000-candle-power are lights were supplied by the public lighting commission at an expense of $58.90 per light, a decrease of $2.75 over 1904. Detroit has always ranked high as an educational center and may well take pride in the fact that the University of Michigan was first opened within its confines and cordially endorsed by its leading citizens. In the past year it had seventy-five school buildings, with 36,403 pupils and 1,039 teachers. Eighty-five private and parochial schools are attended by 17,373 children. Higher education is represented by one college, three high schools, one college of pharmacy, one dental college, one veterinary school, three colleges of medicine and a law school. Two conservatories and several orchestral associations represent Detroit in music and there are twelve theaters and other places of amusement. The public library system, embracing a main building and four branches, is a valuable adjunct to the educational facilities of the city and now controls about one hundred and ninety thousand volumes. The first public library in Detroit was opened March 25, 1865, and contained 8,864 volumes. The Detroit Museum of Art, which was established through the generosity of public-spirited citizens, and is under the directorship of Mr. A. H. Griffith, has done much to popularize art in the city, not only by magnificent collections of paintings and statuary and frequent exhibitions, but also by Sunday afternoon lectures, for which a spacious auditorium was recently erected. But, unfortunately, it discontinued its art school many years ago and since then has had but little influence upon the local art colony. Other art schools have taken its place, notably the Detroit Art Academy. IRA REMSEN, PRESIDENT OF JOHNS HOPKINS As a successor to President D. C. Gilman, Dr. Remsen has maintained the splendid prestige of the first institution in America intended primarily for graduate study JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN President Angell shares with President Eliot of Harvard the first honors among American university presidents. To him more than to any one man is due the present high rank of state universities. For thirty-five years he has been in his present office. During this period he has also been minister both to China and to Turkey, besides serving on important international commissions bring two to their community. To the idealist he must be the idealist; to the commercialist, a commercialist; to the student body a father; to scholars a Macaenas; to society at large an embodiment of culture; and to his trustees a prophet, a general manager, and a bookkeeper. The wonder of it is, he is all this and more. Harper, of Chicago, was a Hebraist of international reputation; Remsen, of Johns Hopkins, is one of the world's greatest chemists; Hall, of Clark, is a psychologist for psychologists; Hadley, of Yale, is an economist; Van Hise, of Wis- RICHARD HENRY JESSE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI In 1891 President Jesse found the University of Missouri with few students, poor buildings insufficent equipment and but little known. Under his administration and through the growing liberality of the state legislature it has become one of the best equipped and best manned institutions in America Every man of them is the product of the educational process, one phase of which he now directs. College presidents used to be made, and still are made of ministers; with two exceptions there is not an ordained man at the head of a real university in the country. But there is not a man of them who was not a great teacher before he was a great president. Their promotion was on the basis of educational experience. Seth Low was a business man and a politician before he became president of Columbia, but he stands alone. A university nowadays is entrusted only to a professional educator. professional educator. Men of caliber large enough to manage such an enormously complicated piece of machinery with its hundreds of teachers and thousands of students and millions of endowment need to serve an apprenticeship just as truly as the manager of a great manufacturing plant. Take the big men as you find them the |